Documents of the Right Word

commandment executed by using force? Was he too weak to do
that? Although a person has the right to demand that the
murderer of his father, mother or child be given death penalty for
retaliation, the two hundred and thirty-seventh âyat of Baqara
sûra purports, ‘If you forgive, this will be closer to taqwâ,’ and the
forty-eighth and the hundred and sixteenth âyats of Nisâ sûra
purport, ‘Allâhu ta’âlâ will forgive the sins except shirk [disbelief]
of anyone He likes,’ and the thirty-eighth âyat of Mâida sûra
purports, ‘If a person commits zulm, that is, sins, and then makes
tawba and then performs pious deeds, Allâhu ta’âlâ will certainly
accept his tawba.’ There are some thirty other similar âyats
promising that tawba will be accepted. While an average born
slave who has committed all sorts of sins and then made tawba
attains Allah’s forgiveness, how do you know that Rasûlullah’s Ashâb
‘ridwânullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim ajmâ’în’ did not make tawba and
attain forgiveness supposing we were to admit that they were
wrong in their decisions pertaining to caliphate?” Once again, he
could not answer.
Arûs zâda Efendi, the Mufti of Baghdâd, told this faqîr (me)
the following episode which he had heard from the keeper of our
master hadrat Huseyn’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ mausoleum in
Kerbelâ (Karbala):
One night the keeper dreamt of hadrat Huseyn ‘radiy-Allâhu
anh’, who said to him, “Tomorrow a corpse will be brought from
Iran. Never let him be buried anywhere close to me.” The next day
a corpse was brought from Iran. They wanted to bury him near the
mausoleum. At first he would not let them. However, being very
rich, they persuaded him to permit them to do so by giving him a
large amount of money. So they buried the corpse at a distance of
about two thousand steps from the mausoleum. That night the
keeper dreamt of Imâm-i-Huseyn ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ again. This
time the Imâm was angry with the keeper and shouted at him. The
keeper said he was very sorry and begged for forgiveness. The
following night the Imâm came into his dream again and rebuked
him. The keeper said he was going to exhume the corpse and bury
it somewhere farther away. Yet the beloved grandson of the
Messenger of Allah ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ said, “If a (dead) person
lies somewhere close to us for two nights, he will be forgiven. He
has been forgiven already, yet this has cost me a great deal of
inconvenience.” Thus he denoted that the keeper as well as the
dead person had been forgiven. When the keeper related this
event to Arûs zâda, the valuable Mufti asked the keeper, “While a
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